Today’s Elite 8 NYC Events > TUESDAY/ NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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Have time for only one NYC Event today? Do this:

CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE AND TIP CITY (Nov.28-Dec.3)at the Village Vanguard / 8:30 and 10:30PM, $30
“Mr. McBride plays the upright bass with a deft assurance, and leads his bands with a sense of avuncular discipline. His recent album, the strong “Bringin’ It,” features Mr. McBride’s large ensemble, but here he appears with a stripped-down trio, with Emmet Cohen on piano and Dan Wilson on guitar. (Mr. McBride will continue his run from Dec. 5 to 10, with his quintet, Inside Straight.)” (NYT-GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO)

KATE GENTILE NEW QUARTETat the Jazz Gallery / 7:30 and 9:30PM, $15
“Mannequins,” Ms. Gentile’s remarkable album from earlier this year, shows her to be a drummer of caustic power and conflicting vectors; as a composer, she writes in layers that dance and shiver. She is bringing three-fourths of the band from “Mannequins” to the Jazz Gallery, where she’ll be joined by Jeremy Viner on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Matt Mitchell on piano and Kim Cass on bass.” (NYT-GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO)

The Chase Brock Experience (Nov.27–Dec. 9)Clurman, 410 W. 42nd St./ 8PM, $29
“Only thirty-four, with choreography credits that include a video game for Nintendo’s Wii and the ill-fated Broadway musical “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark,” Brock is already celebrating the tenth anniversary of his troupe. His sensibility is peppy, poppy, amped up with theatre-geek zeal. His on-the-beat, on-the-nose illustrations of music and lyrics have a let’s-put-on-a-show innocence. This anniversary program ranges chronologically from the 2007 work “Slow Float,” which treats Laura Nyro songs in the manner of “Hair,” to the première of “Men I’ve Known,” which is set, more ambitiously, to Satie’s austere “Ogives.” (NewYorker)

Laurel Halo The Kitchen / 8PM, $15–$20
“Ann Arbor–raised, Berlin-based electronic musician Laurel Halo resides in the imaginary. Like a curious cephalopod, Halo, whose dangerously giddy 2012 debut, Quarantine, was deemed album of the year by The Wire, extends her tentacles into different sectors — feminine post-pop, bristly techno, cool/free jazz, ambient robotics — without ever languishing in an obvious comfort zone. Literary influences include science fiction, Sappho, and concrete poetry, all of which bubble to the surface of her most recent album, Dust, which she’ll dip into here — with the help of percussionist sound installer Eli Keszler — as part of the Kitchen’s ongoing “Synth Nights” series. While Halo delights in confounding expectation, she has a comedy fan’s sense of timing, so her deadpan moments often turn out to be the most deadly of all.” (Richard Gehr, Village Voice)

MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO (Nov.28-Dec.2)at Birdland / 8:30 and 11PM, $40
“Mr. Roberts, a pianist, has just released “Trio Crescent,” reworking the five original compositions on John Coltrane’s somber, interrogational “Crescent” (the album that came just before Coltrane’s landmark “A Love Supreme”). Mr. Roberts’s inclinations run slightly brighter and less implacable than Coltrane’s did, but the album — which will presumably provide some grist for these performances — attests to both the hospitality of these compositions and Mr. Roberts’s fluency as an interpreter. He appears here with the band from “Trio Crescent,” featuring Rodney Jordan on bass and Jason Marsalis on drums.” (NYT-GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO)

Luminariesat Brookfield Place / 5:30PM, FREE
“Get your camera ready: New York will be coated in dazzling Christmas lights pretty soon. And one of the festive displays we can’t wait to see is the Luminaries installation at Brookfield Place.

In honor of the stunning arrangement, comprising 650 LED lanterns hanging from the ceiling, there will be a special lighting ceremony on Tuesday, November 28 at 5:30pm. Check it out and enjoy free performances, sweets and make sure to pack your skates and enjoy ice-skating along the waterfront.” (TONY)

A condensed performance of “A Christmas Carol,” caroling and free ice skating will also accompany the opening of the holiday display Luminaries.

Visionaries Series: Erling KaggeNew Museum, 235 Bowery / 7PM, $5
“One of the world’s great explorers (the first person to surmount the “three poles”: North, South, and the summit of Everest), Erling Kagge is the speaker for this ninth annual New Museum celebration of “innovators who shape intellectual life and the future of culture.” (ThoughtGallery.org)

Elsewhere, but this looks worth the detour:

Critical Walk-Through: Teju Cole on Self-Taught GeniusSelf-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City, Queens / 6PM, $20
“Critic, novelist, and photographer Teju Cole will read from his critically acclaimed novel Open City and discuss works on view in the exhibition Highlights from Self-Taught Genius. A Critical Walk-through is a 40-minute guided tour that is meant to offer an alternative perspective to the works on view. It includes conversations with artists, scholars, and curators, providing an intimate opportunity to engage with the central themes and histories found in the artwork. The program is limited to 45 individuals.”

Continuing Events

Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park(6th Ave. & 42nd St.)
Midtown Manhattan’s winter wonderland.
Enjoy Bryant Park through the winter with the Holiday Shops food and gift boutiques (thru Jan.02), Danny Meyer’s pop-up rinkside eatery Public Fare (thru Mar.04), and The Rink, the centerpiece of Winter Village and New York City’s only free admission ice skating rink.The Rink
This 17,000 square foot rink features free admission ice skating, high quality rental skates, and free skating shows, special events, and activities.
​October 28, 2017 – March 4, 2018
Daily, 8am-10pm (Rink hours are weather permitting)Tree Lighting
As one of the most popular holiday markets in NYC, the Winter Village has big plans to make their tree-lighting ceremony (held 6PM, Friday, December 1) a smash. When you go, you’ll be dazzled by a theatrical ice-skating show starring World Champions and Olympian skaters Kimmie Meissner, Meryl Davis and Charlie White as well as Jeff Buttle. The legendary Johnny Weir will also hit the 17,000-square-foot rink.

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New York City Ballet / “The Nutcracker”(Through Dec. 31)NYS/DHK Theater, Lincoln Center / various times and prices
“As a young dancer in St. Petersburg in the nineteen-tens, George Balanchine performed the lead in the Harlequins’ “Hoop Dance” in the Mariinsky Ballet’s “Nutcracker.” By all accounts, he was rather proud of his performance, and in 1954, when he created his own “Nutcracker” for the New York City Ballet, he included the dance verbatim in the second act, and renamed it “Candy Cane.” With its double hoop jumps, it is still one of the most beloved sections of the ballet, performed by one adult dancer and eight children from the school. This merging of past and present, adult prowess and youthful flair, has helped insure this production’s enduring appeal for more than sixty years. It returns for a monthlong run.” (NewYorker)

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(11/10/17-1/1/18) The NYC perennial holiday favorite Christmas Spectacular Starring The Radio City Rockettes®returns. Fan favorites include “New York at Christmas,” where the Rockettes® board a real double-decker bus, and the high-energy tap number “Twelve Days of Christmas.” Of course, beloved classics like “The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” and “The Living Nativity” will also be back. rockettes.com/christmas

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Erwin Redl’s Whiteout, a newly commissioned public art project, will light up in Madison Square Park tonight. It consists of hundreds of transparent white spheres, each embedded with a white LED light, and suspended from a square grid of steel poles. The swaying sequence of light will be on display until April 2018.

=====================================================Bonus NYC events– Jazz Venues:
Many consider NYCity the Jazz capital of the world. Here are my favorite Jazz clubs, all on Manhattan’s WestSide. Check out who is playing tonight:

Special Mention:Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones St. nr Bleecker St. — caffevivaldi.com / 212-691-7538
a classic, old jazz club in the Village, Caffe V often surprises with a wonderfully eclectic lineup. It’s my favorite spot for an evening of listening enjoyment and discovery.

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“Five minutes on StreetEasy, browsing through seven-figure “contemporary” condos whose furniture was designed a century ago, should offer all the proof necessary that Modernism will never die. This intriguing if incomplete exhibition reveals how two young, Bauhaus-mad men of MoMA — Barr, the museum’s first director, and Johnson, its first architecture curator — imported European design to the United States, and showcased it not only in their new museum but also in their own apartments. Johnson had family money, and hired Mies van der Rohe to kit out his apartment with a rosewood chest, a spare tea table, and a camel-colored Barcelona chair; Barr, who had to work for a living, ordered entirely passable knockoffs from Ypsilanti, Mich. This show is too small for its subject, but if you’re into Modernist revivals, you’ll do better here than at the ghastly new restaurant in Johnson’s old Four Seasons.” (Jason Farago)

Museum of Modern Art:

A special pat on the back to MOMA, who is now displaying art from the seven countries affected by Trump’s travel ban.

“Trump’s ban against refugees from seven Muslim-majority nations has sparked acts of defiance in NYC, from demonstrations across town, to striking taxicab drivers at JFK to Middle Eastern bodega owners closing their shops in protest. Recently, the Museum Of Modern added its two cents by bringing out artworks it owns from the affected countries, and hanging them prominently within the galleries usually reserved for 19th- and 20th-century artworks from Europe and the United States. Paintings by Picasso and Matisse, for example, were removed to make way for pieces by Tala Madani (from Iran), Ibrahim El-Salahi (from Sudan) and architect Zaha Hadid (from Iraq). The rehanging, which was unannounced, aims to create a symbolic welcome that repudiates Trump by creating a visual dialog between the newly added works and the more familiar objects from MoMA’s permanent collection.” (TONY)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

‘BLACK POWER!’ (through Dec. 30).
“Given the economic, environmental and social policies emanating from the White House, the United States could be headed for its most dynamic era of public resistance since the 1960s. And if you’re searching for cultural models from the past, even flawed ones, that effectively brought a message of social change into the street, the schools and the workplace, you’ll do well to check out this vivid documentary show about a cultural movement that broadened activist art to embrace public murals, fashion and poetry; and protest demonstrations that had the visual allure, choreographic rigor and emotional weight of theater.” (Cotter)

American Museum of Natural History:

Mummies (thru 1/7/18)
“For thousands of years, peoples around the world practiced mummification as a way of preserving and honoring their dead. Mummies brings you face to face with some of these ancient individuals and reveals how scientists are using modern technology to glean stunning details about them and their cultures. In Mummies, ancient remains from the Nile Valley of Africa and the Andes Mountains of South America will be on view, allowing visitors to connect with cultures from the distant past. Mummification, a more widespread practice than most think, was used not only for royal Egyptians but also for common people and even animals. Interactive touch tables let visitors virtually “unravel” or see inside mummies as they delve deep into the unique stories of the people or animals who lie within. Other parts of the exhibition showcase the latest isotopic and DNA testing being performed on mummies, and explain how these sophisticated analytical techniques are helping scientists discover important clues about long-vanished practices. Mummies was developed by The Field Museum, Chicago.”(NYCity Guide)

==============================================================For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar dated 11/26 and 11/24.
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